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Reducing the National Security Risks of America’s Cyber Dependencies
The Honorable Richard Danzig offers key insights about how to improve U.S. national security policy-making to address "cyber insecurity."
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Prospects for Sanctions Relief Under a Final Nuclear Deal with Iran
Senior Fellow Elizabeth Rosenberg suggests that a successful nuclear deal will require incremental concessions by Iran on its nuclear program in exchange for incremental sanctions relief by the international community.
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Have We Hit Peak America?
Robert M. Gates Fellow Elbridge Colby and Paul Lettow, former NSC senior director for strategic planning, cite that a number of Americans sense that U.S. leadership in the world is imperiled.
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The Contest for Regional Leadership in the New Middle East
Steven Cook, Jacob Stokes and Alexander Brock examine "a transformative process underway remaking the dynamics among the states" of the Middle East.
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Creative Disruption: Technology, Strategy, and the Future of the Global Defense Industry
“Creative Disruption: Technology, Strategy, and the Future of the Global Defense Industry” identifies trends in the technology, security and business environments; highlights the disruptive effects of these trends; and offers recommendations for...
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20YY Warfare Initiative Project Director Paul Scharre delivers a presentation on autonomous technologies and unmanned systems at CNAS' Eighth Annual National Security Conference.